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Innovation

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Innovation is the name of the game, in some respects, these days. This from the US, for example, seems a very simple way to "walk" lane closures on and off. Presumably not overly expensive either, unlike the cone-laying machine that has recently been developed.

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Everything here seems to be over-engineered to the point it's prohibitively expensive, which is then used as a reason not to do or use it.
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MotorwayGuy wrote: Mon May 16, 2022 13:44 Everything here seems to be over-engineered to the point it's prohibitively expensive, which is then used as a reason not to do or use it.
As lane closures are removed in reverse against the traffic flow, either the vehicle needs to drive towards traffic or, if the direction was to be reversed, it would need an Impact Protection Vehicle behind it - required due to the general public impacting unprotected vehicles and injuring the occupants. Things become expensive when people have been injured or killed just doing their job. Now, if the carriageway could be closed every time the lane closure was put out or taken off....
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RichardA35 wrote: Mon May 16, 2022 14:05
MotorwayGuy wrote: Mon May 16, 2022 13:44 Everything here seems to be over-engineered to the point it's prohibitively expensive, which is then used as a reason not to do or use it.
As lane closures are removed in reverse against the traffic flow, either the vehicle needs to drive towards traffic or, if the direction was to be reversed, it would need an Impact Protection Vehicle behind it - required due to the general public impacting unprotected vehicles and injuring the occupants. Things become expensive when people have been injured or killed just doing their job. Now, if the carriageway could be closed every time the lane closure was put out or taken off....
...you'd be diverting traffic onto roads that might not be suitable for the types or volume of diverted traffic. Or you'd have lanes of stationary traffic with the attendant risk of the back of the queue being hit by the inattentive. If you close the road, how would you do it, across multiple lanes would require either multiple vehicles (= expensive) or just deploy cones, which then just moves the problem further back. Also closing a road to do anything should always be the last option a designer uses.

Possibly to remove (just "walk" off, leaving the cones in the verge or central reserve), you could fit the device to the rear of the vehicle?
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